Call for Papers: Adolescence in Film and Television

The Adolescence in Film and Television Area Chair seeks individual-paper proposals for presentation at the 2011 National Convention of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, to be held in San Antonio, Texas from Wednesday, April 20 through Saturday, April 23.

Call for Papers
International Conference, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
June 8-12, 2010

" …a past that has never been present": Art/Philosophy/ History

Keynote speakers:

Cathy Caruth (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University)
Leonard Lawlor (Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University)

Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics in British Women's Writing
British Women Writers Conference Panel Proposal

Conference: March 31-April 3, 2011 Columbus, OH

Paper proposals are invited for a panel-submission on the relationship between aesthetics and environmentalism in 18th- and 19th-century British women's writing. We are especially interested in papers dealing with late 18th-century or Romantic writers.
500-word abstracts due by October 25, 2010, please include full affiliation and contact information.

Email Andrea Crow crow.73@buckeyemail.osu.edu and Todd Williams williams@kutztown.edu

Precarious Spaces: (Dis-) Locating Gender

The 18th Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Rochester
March 24th & 25th, 2011
Keynote Speaker:
*Laura Kipnis*
Professor of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University

Call for Papers:
D. H. Lawrence: Colonial, Modernist and Postcolonial Perspectives
Wed., June 29 –Sunday, July 3, 2011
Sydney, Australia

The D. H. Lawrence Society of North America invites you to attend the 12th international conference in Sydney, Australia, June 29-July 3, 2011. Our goal is to bring together scholars interested in all aspects of D. H. Lawrence's writing with those interested in its reception by modernist, post-modernist, and postcolonial writers. When Lawrence arrived in Sydney in 1922, two decades after Federation, Australia was consciously redefining its relation to its colonial past and imagining new nationalist futures, as Lawrence recognized in Kangaroo.

The Alien Topography of Ancient Rome in Postwar Film

The legends and history of Greco-Roman antiquity have enjoyed a revival in cinema and television (300, Troy, Gladiator, Rome, Spartacus), and scholars have approached such works using the analytical tools of both classics and film studies. We suggest, however, that this interdisciplinary dialogue is due for development beyond film adaptation into a greater examination of film's use of ancient Rome's alien topography.